| 001:001
| Now
king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes,
but he gat no heat. |
| 001:002 | Wherefore
his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young
virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let
her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. |
| 001:003 | So
they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found
Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. |
| 001:004 | And
the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but
the king knew her not. |
| 001:005 | Then
Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he
prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. |
| 001:006 | And
his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done
so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
|
| 001:007 | And
he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and
they following Adonijah helped him. |
| 001:008 | But
Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet,
and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with
Adonijah. |
| 001:009 | And
Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which
is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men
of Judah the king's servants: |
| 001:010 | But
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother,
he called not. |
| 001:011 | Wherefore
Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard
that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it
not? |
| 001:012 | Now
therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save
thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon. |
| 001:013 | Go
and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord,
O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall
reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
|
| 001:014 | Behold,
while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee,
and confirm thy words. |
| 001:015 | And
Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old;
and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king. |
| 001:016 | And
Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest
thou? |
| 001:017 | And
she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid,
saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon
my throne. |
| 001:018 | And
now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it
not: |
| 001:019 | And
he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all
the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the
host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called. |
| 001:020 | And
thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest
tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. |
| 001:021 | Otherwise
it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers,
that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. |
| 001:022 | And,
lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in. |
| 001:023 | And
they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come
in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
|
| 001:024 | And
Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne? |
| 001:025 | For
he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance,
and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar
the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king
Adonijah. |
| 001:026 | But
me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. |
| 001:027 | Is
this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant,
who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? |
| 001:028 | Then
king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's
presence, and stood before the king. |
| 001:029 | And
the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out
of all distress, |
| 001:030 | Even
as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy
son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even
so will I certainly do this day. |
| 001:031 | Then
Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king,
and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. |
| 001:032 | And
king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king. |
| 001:033 | The
king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause
Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: |
| 001:034 | And
let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel:
and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon. |
| 001:035 | Then
ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he
shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel
and over Judah. |
| 001:036 | And
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God
of my lord the king say so too. |
| 001:037 | As
the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make
his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David. |
| 001:038 | So
Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride
upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon. |
| 001:039 | And
Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon.
And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
|
| 001:040 | And
all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced
with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them. |
| 001:041 | And
Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an
end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore
is this noise of the city being in an uproar? |
| 001:042 | And
while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and
Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good
tidings. |
| 001:043 | And
Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made
Solomon king. |
| 001:044 | And
the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have
caused him to ride upon the king's mule: |
| 001:045 | And
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and
they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is
the noise that ye have heard. |
| 001:046 | And
also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. |
| 001:047 | And
moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God
make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater
than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed. |
| 001:048 | And
also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given
one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it. |
| 001:049 | And
all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every
man his way. |
| 001:050 | And
Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on
the horns of the altar. |
| 001:051 | And
it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo,
he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear
unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword. |
| 001:052 | And
Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair
of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall
die. |
| 001:053 | So
king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and
bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.
|
|
| 002:001
| Now
the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his
son, saying, | | 002:002 | I
go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
|
| 002:003 | And
keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes,
and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written
in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever
thou turnest thyself: |
| 002:004 | That
the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy
children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their
heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on
the throne of Israel. |
| 002:005 | Moreover
thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to
the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto
Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace,
and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his
shoes that were on his feet. |
| 002:006 | Do
therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the
grave in peace. |
| 002:007 | But
shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of
those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of
Absalom thy brother. |
| 002:008 | And,
behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim,
which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but
he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying,
I will not put thee to death with the sword. |
| 002:009 | Now
therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what
thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave
with blood. |
| 002:010 | So
David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. |
| 002:011 | And
the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned
he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. |
| 002:012 | Then
sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established
greatly. |
| 002:013 | And
Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she
said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably. |
| 002:014 | He
said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on. |
| 002:015 | And
he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their
faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and
is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD. |
| 002:016 | And
now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
|
| 002:017 | And
he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee
nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife. |
| 002:018 | And
Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. |
| 002:019 | Bathsheba
therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king
rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne,
and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right
hand. |
| 002:020 | Then
she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay.
And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
|
| 002:021 | And
she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
|
| 002:022 | And
king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag
the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder
brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of
Zeruiah. |
| 002:023 | Then
king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if
Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. |
| 002:024 | Now
therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the
throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah
shall be put to death this day. |
| 002:025 | And
king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon
him that he died. |
| 002:026 | And
unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own
fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee
to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father,
and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
|
| 002:027 | So
Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might
fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in
Shiloh. |
| 002:028 | Then
tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned
not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught
hold on the horns of the altar. |
| 002:029 | And
it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD;
and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
saying, Go, fall upon him. |
| 002:030 | And
Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the
king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought
the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. |
| 002:031 | And
the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him;
that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and
from the house of my father. |
| 002:032 | And
the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more
righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David
not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel,
and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. |
| 002:033 | Their
blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his
seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon
his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD. |
| 002:034 | So
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he
was buried in his own house in the wilderness. |
| 002:035 | And
the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok
the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. |
| 002:036 | And
the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house
in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. |
| 002:037 | For
it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron,
thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be
upon thine own head. |
| 002:038 | And
Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said,
so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. |
| 002:039 | And
it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei
ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying,
Behold, thy servants be in Gath. |
| 002:040 | And
Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants:
and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. |
| 002:041 | And
it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come
again. |
| 002:042 | And
the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee
to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain,
on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt
surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good. |
| 002:043 | Why
then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have
charged thee with? |
| 002:044 | The
king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart
is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return
thy wickedness upon thine own head; |
| 002:045 | And
king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established
before the LORD for ever. |
| 002:046 | So
the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon
him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
|
|
| 003:001
| And
Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter,
and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building
his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
| | 003:002 | Only
the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto
the name of the LORD, until those days. |
| 003:003 | And
Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he
sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. |
| 003:004 | And
the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place:
a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. |
| 003:005 | In
Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask
what I shall give thee. |
| 003:006 | And
Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy,
according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness
of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou
hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. |
| 003:007 | And
now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father:
and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. |
| 003:008 | And
thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people,
that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. |
| 003:009 | Give
therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may
discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a
people? |
| 003:010 | And
the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing. |
| 003:011 | And
God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for
thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the
life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern
judgment; |
| 003:012 | Behold,
I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding
heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall
any arise like unto thee. |
| 003:013 | And
I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour:
so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
|
| 003:014 | And
if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy
father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. |
| 003:015 | And
Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood
before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings,
and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. |
| 003:016 | Then
came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
|
| 003:017 | And
the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was
delivered of a child with her in the house. |
| 003:018 | And
it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was
delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the
house, save we two in the house. |
| 003:019 | And
this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. |
| 003:020 | And
she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid
slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. |
| 003:021 | And
when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but
when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I
did bear. |
| 003:022 | And
the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.
And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus
they spake before the king. |
| 003:023 | Then
said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the
dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the
living. |
| 003:024 | And
the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
|
| 003:025 | And
the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and
half to the other. |
| 003:026 | Then
spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned
upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no
wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide
it. |
| 003:027 | Then
the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay
it: she is the mother thereof. |
| 003:028 | And
all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared
the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment. |
|
| 004:001
| So
king Solomon was king over all Israel. | | 004:002 | And
these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, |
| 004:003 | Elihoreph
and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the
recorder. |
| 004:004 | And
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were
the priests: |
| 004:005 | And
Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan
was principal officer, and the king's friend: |
| 004:006 | And
Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.
|
| 004:007 | And
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the
king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. |
| 004:008 | And
these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: |
| 004:009 | The
son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
|
| 004:010 | The
son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
|
| 004:011 | The
son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of
Solomon to wife: |
| 004:012 | Baana
the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean,
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto
the place that is beyond Jokneam: |
| 004:013 | The
son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of
Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which
is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: |
| 004:014 | Ahinadab
the son of Iddo had Mahanaim: |
| 004:015 | Ahimaaz
was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: |
| 004:016 | Baanah
the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: |
| 004:017 | Jehoshaphat
the son of Paruah, in Issachar: |
| 004:018 | Shimei
the son of Elah, in Benjamin: |
| 004:019 | Geber
the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of
the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was
in the land. |
| 004:020 | Judah
and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating
and drinking, and making merry. |
| 004:021 | And
Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines,
and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all
the days of his life. |
| 004:022 | And
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore
measures of meal, |
| 004:023 | Ten
fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside
harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. |
| 004:024 | For
he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even
to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all
sides round about him. |
| 004:025 | And
Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. |
| 004:026 | And
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen. |
| 004:027 | And
those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto
king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. |
| 004:028 | Barley
also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where
the officers were, every man according to his charge. |
| 004:029 | And
God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of
heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. |
| 004:030 | And
Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country,
and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
| 004:031 | For
he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,
and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
|
| 004:032 | And
he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. |
| 004:033 | And
he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop
that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of
creeping things, and of fishes. |
| 004:034 | And
there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the
earth, which had heard of his wisdom. |
|
| 005:001
| And
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they
had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover
of David. | | 005:002 | And
Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, |
| 005:003 | Thou
knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of
the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the
LORD put them under the soles of his feet. |
| 005:004 | But
now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither
adversary nor evil occurrent. |
| 005:005 | And,
behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the
LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy
throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. |
| 005:006 | Now
therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my
servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy
servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there
is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. |
| 005:007 | And
it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly,
and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise
son over this great people. |
| 005:008 | And
Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest
to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning
timber of fir. |
| 005:009 | My
servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey
them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause
them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish
my desire, in giving food for my household. |
| 005:010 | So
Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. |
| 005:011 | And
Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household,
and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. |
| 005:012 | And
the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between
Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. |
| 005:013 | And
king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand
men. |
| 005:014 | And
he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were
in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy. |
| 005:015 | And
Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand
hewers in the mountains; |
| 005:016 | Beside
the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and
three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. |
| 005:017 | And
the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed
stones, to lay the foundation of the house. |
| 005:018 | And
Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers:
so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. |
|
| 006:001
| And
it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's
reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began
to build the house of the LORD. | | 006:002 | And
the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore
cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty
cubits. |
| 006:003 | And
the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof,
according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof
before the house. |
| 006:004 | And
for the house he made windows of narrow lights. |
| 006:005 | And
against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls
of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made
chambers round about: |
| 006:006 | The
nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad,
and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house
he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in
the walls of the house. |
| 006:007 | And
the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it
was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool
of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. |
| 006:008 | The
door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went
up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into
the third. |
| 006:009 | So
he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards
of cedar. |
| 006:010 | And
then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested
on the house with timber of cedar. |
| 006:011 | And
the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, |
| 006:012 | Concerning
this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and
execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will
I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: |
| 006:013 | And
I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
|
| 006:014 | So
Solomon built the house, and finished it. |
| 006:015 | And
he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor
of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside
with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. |
| 006:016 | And
he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls
with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle,
even for the most holy place. |
| 006:017 | And
the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. |
| 006:018 | And
the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was
cedar; there was no stone seen. |
| 006:019 | And
the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant
of the LORD. |
| 006:020 | And
the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in
breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure
gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. |
| 006:021 | So
Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by
the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. |
| 006:022 | And
the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house:
also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. |
| 006:023 | And
within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
|
| 006:024 | And
five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing
of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part
of the other were ten cubits. |
| 006:025 | And
the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and
one size. |
| 006:026 | The
height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
|
| 006:027 | And
he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings
of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the
wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one
another in the midst of the house. |
| 006:028 | And
he overlaid the cherubims with gold. |
| 006:029 | And
he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims
and palm trees and open flowers, within and without. |
| 006:030 | And
the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. |
| 006:031 | And
for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and
side posts were a fifth part of the wall. |
| 006:032 | The
two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims
and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold
upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. |
| 006:033 | So
also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part
of the wall. |
| 006:034 | And
the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding,
and the two leaves of the other door were folding. |
| 006:035 | And
he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them
with gold fitted upon the carved work. |
| 006:036 | And
he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar
beams. |
| 006:037 | In
the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month
Zif: |
| 006:038 | And
in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the
house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion
of it. So was he seven years in building it. |
|
| 007:001
| But
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his
house. | | 007:002 | He
built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred
cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty
cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
|
| 007:003 | And
it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars,
fifteen in a row. |
| 007:004 | And
there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
|
| 007:005 | And
all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against
light in three ranks. |
| 007:006 | And
he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth
thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars
and the thick beam were before them. |
| 007:007 | Then
he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment:
and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. |
| 007:008 | And
his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the
like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken
to wife, like unto this porch. |
| 007:009 | All
these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed
with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and
so on the outside toward the great court. |
| 007:010 | And
the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits,
and stones of eight cubits. |
| 007:011 | And
above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. |
| 007:012 | And
the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row
of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for
the porch of the house. |
| 007:013 | And
king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. |
| 007:014 | He
was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre,
a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning
to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his
work. |
| 007:015 | For
he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of
twelve cubits did compass either of them about. |
| 007:016 | And
he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars:
the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other
chapiter was five cubits: |
| 007:017 | And
nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were
upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the
other chapiter. |
| 007:018 | And
he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover
the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for
the other chapiter. |
| 007:019 | And
the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the
porch, four cubits. |
| 007:020 | And
the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against
the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in
rows round about upon the other chapiter. |
| 007:021 | And
he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar,
and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called
the name thereof Boaz. |
| 007:022 | And
upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
|
| 007:023 | And
he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round
all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did
compass it round about. |
| 007:024 | And
under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit,
compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was
cast. |
| 007:025 | It
stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward
the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the
east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were
inward. |
| 007:026 | And
it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim
of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. |
| 007:027 | And
he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four
cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. |
| 007:028 | And
the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders
were between the ledges: |
| 007:029 | And
on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims:
and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen
were certain additions made of thin work. |
| 007:030 | And
every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners
thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the
side of every addition. |
| 007:031 | And
the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof
was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the
mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. |
| 007:032 | And
under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined
to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. |
| 007:033 | And
the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees,
and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. |
| 007:034 | And
there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters
were of the very base itself. |
| 007:035 | And
in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and
on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the
same. |
| 007:036 | For
on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved
cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one,
and additions round about. |
| 007:037 | After
this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure,
and one size. |
| 007:038 | Then
made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver
was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. |
| 007:039 | And
he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side
of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over
against the south. |
| 007:040 | And
Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end
of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
|
| 007:041 | The
two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the
two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters
which were upon the top of the pillars; |
| 007:042 | And
four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates
for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the
pillars; |
| 007:043 | And
the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; |
| 007:044 | And
one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; |
| 007:045 | And
the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram
made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass. |
| 007:046 | In
the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth
and Zarthan. |
| 007:047 | And
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither
was the weight of the brass found out. |
| 007:048 | And
Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the
altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was, |
| 007:049 | And
the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left,
before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
|
| 007:050 | And
the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers
of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house,
the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
|
| 007:051 | So
was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And
Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the
silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the
house of the LORD. |
|
| 008:001
| Then
Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem,
that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city
of David, which is Zion. | | 008:002 | And
all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in
the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. |
| 008:003 | And
all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. |
| 008:004 | And
they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation,
and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests
and the Levites bring up. |
| 008:005 | And
king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto
him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not
be told nor numbered for multitude. |
| 008:006 | And
the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place,
into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings
of the cherubims. |
| 008:007 | For
the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. |
| 008:008 | And
they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the
holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they
are unto this day. |
| 008:009 | There
was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there
at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they
came out of the land of Egypt. |
| 008:010 | And
it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the
cloud filled the house of the LORD, |
| 008:011 | So
that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the
glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. |
| 008:012 | Then
spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. |
| 008:013 | I
have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide
in for ever. |
| 008:014 | And
the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel:
(and all the congregation of Israel stood;) |
| 008:015 | And
he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto
David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, |
| 008:016 | Since
the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city
out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein;
but I chose David to be over my people Israel. |
| 008:017 | And
it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel. |
| 008:018 | And
the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build
an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. |
| 008:019 | Nevertheless
thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy
loins, he shall build the house unto my name. |
| 008:020 | And
the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room
of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised,
and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. |
| 008:021 | And
I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD,
which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
|
| 008:022 | And
Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation
of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: |
| 008:023 | And
he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or
on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk
before thee with all their heart: |
| 008:024 | Who
hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest
also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
|
| 008:025 | Therefore
now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst
him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne
of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before
me as thou hast walked before me. |
| 008:026 | And
now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest
unto thy servant David my father. |
| 008:027 | But
will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens
cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? |
| 008:028 | Yet
have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication,
O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant
prayeth before thee to day: |
| 008:029 | That
thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place
of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto
the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. |
| 008:030 | And
hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place: and when thou hearest, forgive. |
| 008:031 | If
any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause
him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: |
| 008:032 | Then
hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked,
to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according
to his righteousness. |
| 008:033 | When
thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned
against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray,
and make supplication unto thee in this house: |
| 008:034 | Then
hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them
again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. |
| 008:035 | When
heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee;
if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin,
when thou afflictest them: |
| 008:036 | Then
hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people
Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give
rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
|
| 008:037 | If
there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust,
or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their
cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; |
| 008:038 | What
prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel,
which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his
hands toward this house: |
| 008:039 | Then
hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every
man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only,
knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) |
| 008:040 | That
they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest
unto our fathers. |
| 008:041 | Moreover
concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of
a far country for thy name's sake; |
| 008:042 | (For
they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched
out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; |
| 008:043 | Hear
thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger
calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear
thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which
I have builded, is called by thy name. |
| 008:044 | If
thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send
them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen,
and toward the house that I have built for thy name: |
| 008:045 | Then
hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause. |
| 008:046 | If
they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be
angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away
captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; |
| 008:047 | Yet
if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives,
and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried
them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed
wickedness; |
| 008:048 | And
so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land
of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their
land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen,
and the house which I have built for thy name: |
| 008:049 | Then
hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place,
and maintain their cause, |
| 008:050 | And
forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions
wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before
them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: |
| 008:051 | For
they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out
of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: |
| 008:052 | That
thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication
of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
|
| 008:053 | For
thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine
inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest
our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God. |
| 008:054 | And
it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and
supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from
kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. |
| 008:055 | And
he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
|
| 008:056 | Blessed
be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all
that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which
he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. |
| 008:057 | The
LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us,
nor forsake us: |
| 008:058 | That
he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
|
| 008:059 | And
let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be
nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his
servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall
require: |
| 008:060 | That
all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is
none else. |
| 008:061 | Let
your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes,
and to keep his commandments, as at this day. |
| 008:062 | And
the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. |
| 008:063 | And
Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD,
two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So
the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. |
| 008:064 | The
same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house
of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the
LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings. |
| 008:065 | And
at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation,
from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our
God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. |
| 008:066 | On
the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went
unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD
had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. |
|
| 009:001
| And
it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the
LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to
do, | | 009:002 | That
the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at
Gibeon. |
| 009:003 | And
the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that
thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built,
to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually. |
| 009:004 | And
if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart,
and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and
wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: |
| 009:005 | Then
I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised
to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne
of Israel. |
| 009:006 | But
if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not
keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and
serve other gods, and worship them: |
| 009:007 | Then
will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel
shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: |
| 009:008 | And
at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished,
and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land,
and to this house? |
| 009:009 | And
they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth
their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods,
and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought
upon them all this evil. |
| 009:010 | And
it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two
houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house, |
| 009:011 | (Now
Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees,
and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram
twenty cities in the land of Galilee. |
| 009:012 | And
Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they pleased him not. |
| 009:013 | And
he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he
called them the land of Cabul unto this day. |
| 009:014 | And
Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. |
| 009:015 | And
this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the
house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem,
and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. |
| 009:016 | For
Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire,
and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present
unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. |
| 009:017 | And
Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, |
| 009:018 | And
Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, |
| 009:019 | And
all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and
cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem,
and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. |
| 009:020 | And
all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, |
| 009:021 | Their
children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel
also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute
of bondservice unto this day. |
| 009:022 | But
of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of
war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots, and his horsemen. |
| 009:023 | These
were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred
and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. |
| 009:024 | But
Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon
had built for her: then did he build Millo. |
| 009:025 | And
three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings
upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the
altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house. |
| 009:026 | And
king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on
the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. |
| 009:027 | And
Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon. |
| 009:028 | And
they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents,
and brought it to king Solomon. |
|
| 010:001
| And
when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of
the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. | | 010:002 | And
she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices,
and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart. |
| 010:003 | And
Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king,
which he told her not. |
| 010:004 | And
when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he
had built, |
| 010:005 | And
the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance
of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by
which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
|
| 010:006 | And
she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of
thy acts and of thy wisdom. |
| 010:007 | Howbeit
I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold,
the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which
I heard. |
| 010:008 | Happy
are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee,
and that hear thy wisdom. |
| 010:009 | Blessed
be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of
Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king,
to do judgment and justice. |
| 010:010 | And
she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very
great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices
as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. |
| 010:011 | And
the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir
great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. |
| 010:012 | And
the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for
the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such
almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. |
| 010:013 | And
king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked,
beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went
to her own country, she and her servants. |
| 010:014 | Now
the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore
and six talents of gold, |
| 010:015 | Beside
that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants,
and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. |
| 010:016 | And
king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of
gold went to one target. |
| 010:017 | And
he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one
shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. |
| 010:018 | Moreover
the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
|
| 010:019 | The
throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there
were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside
the stays. |
| 010:020 | And
twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps:
there was not the like made in any kingdom. |
| 010:021 | And
all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was
nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. |
| 010:022 | For
the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three
years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes,
and peacocks. |
| 010:023 | So
king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
|
| 010:024 | And
all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his
heart. |
| 010:025 | And
they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold,
and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
|
| 010:026 | And
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and
four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the
cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. |
| 010:027 | And
the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be
as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. |
| 010:028 | And
Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants
received the linen yarn at a price. |
| 010:029 | And
a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver,
and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites,
and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means. |
|
| 011:001
| But
king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,
women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: | | 011:002 | Of
the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye
shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they
will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
|
| 011:003 | And
he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his
wives turned away his heart. |
| 011:004 | For
it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart
after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was
the heart of David his father. |
| 011:005 | For
Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom
the abomination of the Ammonites. |
| 011:006 | And
Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD,
as did David his father. |
| 011:007 | Then
did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the
hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children
of Ammon. |
| 011:008 | And
likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed
unto their gods. |
| 011:009 | And
the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD
God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, |
| 011:010 | And
had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other
gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. |
| 011:011 | Wherefore
the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast
not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely
rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. |
| 011:012 | Notwithstanding
in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it
out of the hand of thy son. |
| 011:013 | Howbeit
I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for
David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen. |
| 011:014 | And
the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of
the king's seed in Edom. |
| 011:015 | For
it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was
gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; |
| 011:016 | (For
six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every
male in Edom:) |
| 011:017 | That
Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go
into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child. |
| 011:018 | And
they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out
of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him
an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. |
| 011:019 | And
Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife
the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. |
| 011:020 | And
the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's
house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh. |
| 011:021 | And
when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab
the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that
I may go to mine own country. |
| 011:022 | Then
Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou
seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me
go in any wise. |
| 011:023 | And
God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled
from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: |
| 011:024 | And
he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them
of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
|
| 011:025 | And
he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief
that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria. |
| 011:026 | And
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose
mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against
the king. |
| 011:027 | And
this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built
Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. |
| 011:028 | And
the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man
that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house
of Joseph. |
| 011:029 | And
it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the
prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself
with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: |
| 011:030 | And
Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
|
| 011:031 | And
he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God
of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and
will give ten tribes to thee: |
| 011:032 | (But
he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake,
the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) |
| 011:033 | Because
that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children
of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine
eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. |
| 011:034 | Howbeit
I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince
all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because
he kept my commandments and my statutes: |
| 011:035 | But
I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee,
even ten tribes. |
| 011:036 | And
unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light
alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name
there. |
| 011:037 | And
I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth,
and shalt be king over Israel. |
| 011:038 | And
it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk
in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments,
as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house,
as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. |
| 011:039 | And
I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. |
| 011:040 | Solomon
sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt,
unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. |
| 011:041 | And
the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they
not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? |
| 011:042 | And
the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
|
| 011:043 | And
Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father:
and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 012:001
| And
Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
| | 012:002 | And
it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard
of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt
in Egypt;) |
| 012:003 | That
they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came,
and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, |
| 012:004 | Thy
father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service
of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will
serve thee. |
| 012:005 | And
he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the
people departed. |
| 012:006 | And
king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father
while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
|
| 012:007 | And
they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this
day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then
they will be thy servants for ever. |
| 012:008 | But
he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted
with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
|
| 012:009 | And
he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who
have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
|
| 012:010 | And
the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt
thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our
yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them,
My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. |
| 012:011 | And
now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke:
my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
|
| 012:012 | So
Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had
appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day. |
| 012:013 | And
the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that
they gave him; |
| 012:014 | And
spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your
yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. |
| 012:015 | Wherefore
the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that
he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto
Jeroboam the son of Nebat. |
| 012:016 | So
when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered
the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance
in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David.
So Israel departed unto their tents. |
| 012:017 | But
as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam
reigned over them. |
| 012:018 | Then
king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned
him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him
up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. |
| 012:019 | So
Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. |
| 012:020 | And
it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they
sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel:
there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
|
| 012:021 | And
when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with
the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which
were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again
to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. |
| 012:022 | But
the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, |
| 012:023 | Speak
unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of
Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, |
| 012:024 | Thus
saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children
of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened
therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the
word of the LORD. |
| 012:025 | Then
Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from
thence, and built Penuel. |
| 012:026 | And
Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
|
| 012:027 | If
this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then
shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam
king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
|
| 012:028 | Whereupon
the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It
is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. |
| 012:029 | And
he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. |
| 012:030 | And
this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even
unto Dan. |
| 012:031 | And
he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people,
which were not of the sons of Levi. |
| 012:032 | And
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar.
So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed
in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. |
| 012:033 | So
he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of
the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart;
and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar,
and burnt incense. |
|
| 013:001
| And,
behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel:
and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. | | 013:002 | And
he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar,
thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David,
Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places
that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. |
| 013:003 | And
he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken;
Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured
out. |
| 013:004 | And
it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which
had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the
altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him,
dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. |
| 013:005 | The
altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to
the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. |
| 013:006 | And
the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the
LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the
man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and
became as it was before. |
| 013:007 | And
the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself,
and I will give thee a reward. |
| 013:008 | And
the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I
will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this
place: |
| 013:009 | For
so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink
water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. |
| 013:010 | So
he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel. |
| 013:011 | Now
there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the
works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had
spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. |
| 013:012 | And
their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way
the man of God went, which came from Judah. |
| 013:013 | And
he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and
he rode thereon, |
| 013:014 | And
went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said
unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
|
| 013:015 | Then
he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. |
| 013:016 | And
he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat
bread nor drink water with thee in this place: |
| 013:017 | For
it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink
water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. |
| 013:018 | He
said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me
by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house,
that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. |
| 013:019 | So
he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. |
| 013:020 | And
it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto
the prophet that brought him back: |
| 013:021 | And
he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD,
Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the
commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, |
| 013:022 | But
camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which
the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall
not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. |
| 013:023 | And
it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he
saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
|
| 013:024 | And
when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase
was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
|
| 013:025 | And,
behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing
by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet
dwelt. |
| 013:026 | And
when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said,
It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore
the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him. |
| 013:027 | And
he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. |
| 013:028 | And
he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing
by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. |
| 013:029 | And
the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass,
and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to
bury him. |
| 013:030 | And
he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas,
my brother! |
| 013:031 | And
it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying,
When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried;
lay my bones beside his bones: |
| 013:032 | For
the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel,
and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria,
shall surely come to pass. |
| 013:033 | After
this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest
of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him,
and he became one of the priests of the high places. |
| 013:034 | And
this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to
destroy it from off the face of the earth. |
|
| 014:001
| At
that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. | | 014:002 | And
Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou
be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there
is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
|
| 014:003 | And
take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him:
he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. |
| 014:004 | And
Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house
of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his
age. |
| 014:005 | And
the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing
of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her:
for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another
woman. |
| 014:006 | And
it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door,
that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to
be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. |
| 014:007 | Go,
tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee
from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, |
| 014:008 | And
rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou
hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed
me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; |
| 014:009 | But
hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made
thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me
behind thy back: |
| 014:010 | Therefore,
behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from
Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left
in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man
taketh away dung, till it be all gone. |
| 014:011 | Him
that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in
the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it. |
| 014:012 | Arise
thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the
city, the child shall die. |
| 014:013 | And
all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall
come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the
LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. |
| 014:014 | Moreover
the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house
of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. |
| 014:015 | For
the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall
root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall
scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking
the LORD to anger. |
| 014:016 | And
he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who
made Israel to sin. |
| 014:017 | And
Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came
to the threshold of the door, the child died; |
| 014:018 | And
they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the
LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. |
| 014:019 | And
the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. |
| 014:020 | And
the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with
his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. |
| 014:021 | And
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the
city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his
name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. |
| 014:022 | And
Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy
with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had
done. |
| 014:023 | For
they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill,
and under every green tree. |
| 014:024 | And
there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations
of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. |
| 014:025 | And
it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem: |
| 014:026 | And
he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold
which Solomon had made. |
| 014:027 | And
king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the
hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house. |
| 014:028 | And
it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare
them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. |
| 014:029 | Now
the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? |
| 014:030 | And
there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. |
| 014:031 | And
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city
of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son
reigned in his stead. |
|
| 015:001
| Now
in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over
Judah. | | 015:002 | Three
years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter
of Abishalom. |
| 015:003 | And
he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and
his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his
father. |
| 015:004 | Nevertheless
for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set
up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: |
| 015:005 | Because
David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside
from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in
the matter of Uriah the Hittite. |
| 015:006 | And
there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. |
| 015:007 | Now
the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between
Abijam and Jeroboam. |
| 015:008 | And
Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and
Asa his son reigned in his stead. |
| 015:009 | And
in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. |
| 015:010 | And
forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah,
the daughter of Abishalom. |
| 015:011 | And
Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
|
| 015:012 | And
he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that
his fathers had made. |
| 015:013 | And
also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she
had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the
brook Kidron. |
| 015:014 | But
the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with
the LORD all his days. |
| 015:015 | And
he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which
himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
|
| 015:016 | And
there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. |
| 015:017 | And
Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might
not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. |
| 015:018 | Then
Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the
house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them
into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son
of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
|
| 015:019 | There
is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold,
I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league
with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. |
| 015:020 | So
Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which
he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah,
and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. |
| 015:021 | And
it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah,
and dwelt in Tirzah. |
| 015:022 | Then
king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they
took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had
builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. |
| 015:023 | The
rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the
cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased
in his feet. |
| 015:024 | And
Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead. |
| 015:025 | And
Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of
Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years. |
| 015:026 | And
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father,
and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. |
| 015:027 | And
Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him;
and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab
and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. |
| 015:028 | Even
in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in
his stead. |
| 015:029 | And
it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam;
he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according
unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
|
| 015:030 | Because
of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his
provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger. |
| 015:031 | Now
the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
| 015:032 | And
there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. |
| 015:033 | In
the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign
over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years. |
| 015:034 | And
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and
in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. |
|
| 016:001
| Then
the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
| | 016:002 | Forasmuch
as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel;
and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel
to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins; |
| 016:003 | Behold,
I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and
will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. |
| 016:004 | Him
that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of
his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. |
| 016:005 | Now
the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
| 016:006 | So
Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned
in his stead. |
| 016:007 | And
also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the
LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did
in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands,
in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him. |
| 016:008 | In
the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha
to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years. |
| 016:009 | And
his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as
he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his
house in Tirzah. |
| 016:010 | And
Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year
of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. |
| 016:011 | And
it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that
he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a
wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. |
| 016:012 | Thus
did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet. |
| 016:013 | For
all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned,
and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to
anger with their vanities. |
| 016:014 | Now
the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
| 016:015 | In
the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days
in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to
the Philistines. |
| 016:016 | And
the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also
slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king
over Israel that day in the camp. |
| 016:017 | And
Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
|
| 016:018 | And
it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into
the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire,
and died. |
| 016:019 | For
his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
|
| 016:020 | Now
the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
| 016:021 | Then
were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed
Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. |
| 016:022 | But
the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni
the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. |
| 016:023 | In
the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel,
twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. |
| 016:024 | And
he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on
the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of
Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria. |
| 016:025 | But
Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were
before him. |
| 016:026 | For
he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith
he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their
vanities. |
| 016:027 | Now
the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
| 016:028 | So
Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned
in his stead. |
| 016:029 | And
in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri
to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria
twenty and two years. |
| 016:030 | And
Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were
before him. |
| 016:031 | And
it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of
Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
|
| 016:032 | And
he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in
Samaria. |
| 016:033 | And
Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger
than all the kings of Israel that were before him. |
| 016:034 | In
his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof
in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
|
|
| 017:001
| And
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab,
As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew
nor rain these years, but according to my word. | | 017:002 | And
the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, |
| 017:003 | Get
thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith,
that is before Jordan. |
| 017:004 | And
it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens
to feed thee there. |
| 017:005 | So
he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt
by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. |
| 017:006 | And
the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh
in the evening; and he drank of the brook. |
| 017:007 | And
it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been
no rain in the land. |
| 017:008 | And
the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, |
| 017:009 | Arise,
get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I
have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. |
| 017:010 | So
he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold,
the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said,
Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. |
| 017:011 | And
as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray
thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. |
| 017:012 | And
she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of
meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering
two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat
it, and die. |
| 017:013 | And
Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof
a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for
thy son. |
| 017:014 | For
thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither
shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon
the earth. |
| 017:015 | And
she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her
house, did eat many days. |
| 017:016 | And
the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. |
| 017:017 | And
it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress
of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath
left in him. |
| 017:018 | And
she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou
come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? |
| 017:019 | And
he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried
him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. |
| 017:020 | And
he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil
upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? |
| 017:021 | And
he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and
said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
|
| 017:022 | And
the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him
again, and he revived. |
| 017:023 | And
Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house,
and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. |
| 017:024 | And
the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and
that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth. |
|
| 018:001
| And
it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in
the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon
the earth. | | 018:002 | And
Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
|
| 018:003 | And
Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared
the LORD greatly: |
| 018:004 | For
it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took
an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread
and water.) |
| 018:005 | And
Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and
unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules
alive, that we lose not all the beasts. |
| 018:006 | So
they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way
by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. |
| 018:007 | And
as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell
on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? |
| 018:008 | And
he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. |
| 018:009 | And
he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the
hand of Ahab, to slay me? |
| 018:010 | As
the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath
not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath
of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not. |
| 018:011 | And
now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. |
| 018:012 | And
it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the
LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab,
and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD
from my youth. |
| 018:013 | Was
it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD,
how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed
them with bread and water? |
| 018:014 | And
now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay
me. |
| 018:015 | And
Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely
shew myself unto him to day. |
| 018:016 | So
Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah. |
| 018:017 | And
it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he
that troubleth Israel? |
| 018:018 | And
he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house,
in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed
Baalim. |
| 018:019 | Now
therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets
of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred,
which eat at Jezebel's table. |
| 018:020 | So
Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together
unto mount Carmel. |
| 018:021 | And
Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?
if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people
answered him not a word. |
| 018:022 | Then
said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD;
but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. |
| 018:023 | Let
them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves,
and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will
dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: |
| 018:024 | And
call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD:
and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered
and said, It is well spoken. |
| 018:025 | And
Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves,
and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but
put no fire under. |
| 018:026 | And
they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called
on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.
But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar
which was made. |
| 018:027 | And
it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for
he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,
or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. |
| 018:028 | And
they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets,
till the blood gushed out upon them. |
| 018:029 | And
it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of
the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any
to answer, nor any that regarded. |
| 018:030 | And
Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came
near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
|
| 018:031 | And
Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons
of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy
name: |
| 018:032 | And
with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench
about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. |
| 018:033 | And
he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the
wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice,
and on the wood. |
| 018:034 | And
he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said,
Do it the third time. And they did it the third time. |
| 018:035 | And
the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
|
| 018:036 | And
it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that
Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of
Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am
thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. |
| 018:037 | Hear
me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God,
and that thou hast turned their heart back again. |
| 018:038 | Then
the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood,
and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
|
| 018:039 | And
when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD,
he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. |
| 018:040 | And
Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.
And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew
them there. |
| 018:041 | And
Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of
abundance of rain. |
| 018:042 | So
Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel;
and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
|
| 018:043 | And
said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked,
and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. |
| 018:044 | And
it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a
little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto
Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not. |
| 018:045 | And
it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and
wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. |
| 018:046 | And
the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before
Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. |
|
| 019:001
| And
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all
the prophets with the sword. | | 019:002 | Then
Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and
more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about
this time. |
| 019:003 | And
when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which
belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. |
| 019:004 | But
he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said,
It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
|
| 019:005 | And
as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him,
and said unto him, Arise and eat. |
| 019:006 | And
he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of
water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. |
| 019:007 | And
the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said,
Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. |
| 019:008 | And
he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty
days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. |
| 019:009 | And
he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the
LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? |
| 019:010 | And
he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children
of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy
prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,
to take it away. |
| 019:011 | And
he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the
LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in
pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after
the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: |
| 019:012 | And
after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the
fire a still small voice. |
| 019:013 | And
it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and
went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came
a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? |
| 019:014 | And
he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children
of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy
prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,
to take it away. |
| 019:015 | And
the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus:
and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: |
| 019:016 | And
Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha
the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
|
| 019:017 | And
it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu
slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. |
| 019:018 | Yet
I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed
unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. |
| 019:019 | So
he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with
twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed
by him, and cast his mantle upon him. |
| 019:020 | And
he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss
my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him,
Go back again: for what have I done to thee? |
| 019:021 | And
he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled
their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and
they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
|
|
| 020:001
| And
Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty
and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots; and he went up and besieged
Samaria, and warred against it. | | 020:002 | And
he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him,
Thus saith Benhadad, |
| 020:003 | Thy
silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest,
are mine. |
| 020:004 | And
the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying,
I am thine, and all that I have. |
| 020:005 | And
the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although
I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold,
and thy wives, and thy children; |
| 020:006 | Yet
I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall
search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever
is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
|
| 020:007 | Then
the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray
you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives,
and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
|
| 020:008 | And
all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor
consent. |
| 020:009 | Wherefore
he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou
didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may
not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again. |
| 020:010 | And
Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if
the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow
me. |
| 020:011 | And
the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on
his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. |
| 020:012 | And
it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he
and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves
in array. And they set themselves in array against the city. |
| 020:013 | And,
behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the
LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into
thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. |
| 020:014 | And
Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men
of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle?
And he answered, Thou. |
| 020:015 | Then
he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two
hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all
the children of Israel, being seven thousand. |
| 020:016 | And
they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions,
he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. |
| 020:017 | And
the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad
sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. |
| 020:018 | And
he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they
be come out for war, take them alive. |
| 020:019 | So
these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the
army which followed them. |
| 020:020 | And
they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them:
and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen. |
| 020:021 | And
the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the
Syrians with a great slaughter. |
| 020:022 | And
the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself,
and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of
Syria will come up against thee. |
| 020:023 | And
the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the
hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them
in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. |
| 020:024 | And
do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains
in their rooms: |
| 020:025 | And
number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and
chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely
we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did
so. |
| 020:026 | And
it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians,
and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. |
| 020:027 | And
the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against
them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks
of kids; but the Syrians filled the country. |
| 020:028 | And
there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus
saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills,
but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude
into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 020:029 | And
they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in
the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the
Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. |
| 020:030 | But
the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and
seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into
the city, into an inner chamber. |
| 020:031 | And
his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the
house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our
loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure
he will save thy life. |
| 020:032 | So
they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came
to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let
me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. |
| 020:033 | Now
the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did
hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye,
bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into
the chariot. |
| 020:034 | And
Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father,
I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father
made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant.
So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. |
| 020:035 | And
a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word
of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him. |
| 020:036 | Then
said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold,
as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as
he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him. |
| 020:037 | Then
he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him,
so that in smiting he wounded him. |
| 020:038 | So
the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself
with ashes upon his face. |
| 020:039 | And
as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went
out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought
a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then
shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
|
| 020:040 | And
as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel
said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it. |
| 020:041 | And
he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned
him that he was of the prophets. |
| 020:042 | And
he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy
hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall
go for his life, and thy people for his people. |
| 020:043 | And
the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
|
|
| 021:001
| And
it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard,
which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. | | 021:002 | And
Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for
a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for
it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee
the worth of it in money. |
| 021:003 | And
Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance
of my fathers unto thee. |
| 021:004 | And
Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth
the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the
inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away
his face, and would eat no bread. |
| 021:005 | But
Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad,
that thou eatest no bread? |
| 021:006 | And
he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto
him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give
thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
|
| 021:007 | And
Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?
arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite. |
| 021:008 | So
she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the
letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with
Naboth. |
| 021:009 | And
she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among
the people: |
| 021:010 | And
set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying,
Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him,
that he may die. |
| 021:011 | And
the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants
in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the
letters which she had sent unto them. |
| 021:012 | They
proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. |
| 021:013 | And
there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men
of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the
people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him
forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. |
| 021:014 | Then
they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. |
| 021:015 | And
it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that
Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive,
but dead. |
| 021:016 | And
it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to
go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
|
| 021:017 | And
the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, |
| 021:018 | Arise,
go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in
the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it. |
| 021:019 | And
thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and
also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the
LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy
blood, even thine. |
| 021:020 | And
Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have
found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the
LORD. |
| 021:021 | Behold,
I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut
off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and
left in Israel, |
| 021:022 | And
will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like
the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast
provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. |
| 021:023 | And
of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall
of Jezreel. |
| 021:024 | Him
that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the
field shall the fowls of the air eat. |
| 021:025 | But
there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in
the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. |
| 021:026 | And
he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the
Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. |
| 021:027 | And
it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and
put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
|
| 021:028 | And
the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, |
| 021:029 | Seest
thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before
me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring
the evil upon his house. |
|
| 022:001
| And
they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. | | 022:002 | And
it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came
down to the king of Israel. |
| 022:003 | And
the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is
ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
|
| 022:004 | And
he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy
people, my horses as thy horses. |
| 022:005 | And
Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word
of the LORD to day. |
| 022:006 | Then
the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men,
and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
|
| 022:007 | And
Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we
might enquire of him? |
| 022:008 | And
the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the
son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth
not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
king say so. |
| 022:009 | Then
the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son
of Imlah. |
| 022:010 | And
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne,
having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria;
and all the prophets prophesied before them. |
| 022:011 | And
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith
the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed
them. |
| 022:012 | And
all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper:
for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand. |
| 022:013 | And
the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold
now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let
thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which
is good. |
| 022:014 | And
Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I
speak. |
| 022:015 | So
he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against
Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper:
for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king. |
| 022:016 | And
the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me
nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD? |
| 022:017 | And
he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not
a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every
man to his house in peace. |
| 022:018 | And
the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would
prophesy no good concerning me, but evil? |
| 022:019 | And
he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on
his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and
on his left. |
| 022:020 | And
the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. |
| 022:021 | And
there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade
him. |
| 022:022 | And
the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will
be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt
persude him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. |
| 022:023 | Now
therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these
thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. |
| 022:024 | But
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and
said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee? |
| 022:025 | And
Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an
inner chamber to hide thyself. |
| 022:026 | And
the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor
of the city, and to Joash the king's son; |
| 022:027 | And
say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with
bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace. |
| 022:028 | And
Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me.
And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you. |
| 022:029 | So
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
|
| 022:030 | And
the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter
into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised
himself, and went into the battle. |
| 022:031 | But
the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over
his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the
king of Israel. |
| 022:032 | And
it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they
said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against
him: and Jehoshaphat cried out. |
| 022:033 | And
it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not
the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. |
| 022:034 | And
a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between
the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot,
Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded. |
| 022:035 | And
the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against
the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the
midst of the chariot. |
| 022:036 | And
there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun,
saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country. |
| 022:037 | So
the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
|
| 022:038 | And
one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood;
and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
|
| 022:039 | Now
the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which
he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
| 022:040 | So
Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. |
| 022:041 | And
Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of
Ahab king of Israel. |
| 022:042 | Jehoshaphat
was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty
and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter
of Shilhi. |
| 022:043 | And
he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing
that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places
were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high
places. |
| 022:044 | And
Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. |
| 022:045 | Now
the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how
he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah? |
| 022:046 | And
the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa,
he took out of the land. |
| 022:047 | There
was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king. |
| 022:048 | Jehoshaphat
made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the
ships were broken at Eziongeber. |
| 022:049 | Then
said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy
servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. |
| 022:050 | And
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. |
| 022:051 | Ahaziah
the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel. |
| 022:052 | And
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father,
and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin: |
| 022:053 | For
he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel,
according to all that his father had done. |